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What video generation was decent 2 years ago? Will smith eating spaghetti was barely coherent and clearly broken, and that was March 2023 (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ai-will-smith-eating-spaghett...).

And isn’t this model open source…? So we get access to it, like, momentarily? Or did I miss something?



So you're right to be excited, I agree. And I don't know, Meta, like OpenAI, seems to release conditionally, though yes, more. I doubt it before the election.

When the Will Smith one was released, it was kind of a parody though. Tech had already been able to produce that level of "quality" for about 2 years at the time of it's publishing. The Will Smith one is honestly something you could have created with Disco Diffusion in early 2021, I used to do this back then...

2022 saw: https://makeavideo.studio/ (coherent, but low res - it was possible to upscale at extreme expense) https://sites.research.google/phenaki/ https://lumiere-video.github.io/

It was more like 18-20 months ago sorry so early 2023, but https://runwayml.com/research/gen-1 was getting there as was https://pika.art/home - Sora obviously changed the game, but I would say these two were great.




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